A massive dust storm buried parts of New Mexico and Texas in airborne smut Monday morning, shutting down highways and leaving nearly 900,000 residents trapped in a potentially deadly cloud.The dust storm — a particularly fierce variety known as a “haboob” — was miles wide and thousands of feet tall,

Two dust storms, also known as haboobs, enveloped regions in Texas and New Mexico Monday afternoon, creating unsafe road conditions.

A large storm brought strong winds, blizzards and heavy rain, which knocked out power for hundreds of thousands and clouded the sky in an orange haze in parts of the state.